That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.
It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.
There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women…and Messi
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.
A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.
I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.
Whatever good religion has done, it has come at a terrible price.
There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.
Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.